. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 27.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Diet Assoc. 2010 Jul;110(7):1049–1057. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2010.04.009

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of preschool children living in rural tribal communities: Healthy Children Strong Families Study (n= 135)

Characteristic	n	%
Sex
Girls	64	47.4
Boys	71	52.6
Age (year)
2	20	14.8
3	46	34.1
4	50	37.0
5	19	14.1
Ethnicity
American Indian	127	94.0
Other	8	6.0
BMI Percentile
< 85^th	70	51.9
85-95^th	23	17.0
≥ 95^th	42	31.1
Breastfed, Yes (any amount of time)	76	56.3
Enrolled in Head Start, Yes	106	78.5
Enrolled in WIC^a, Yes	102	75.6

WIC= Women, Infants, Children